The 10th Australian Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference is to be held in Melbourne in 2016.

The Australia-wide wildlife rehabilitation sector which consists of thousands of individuals and hundreds of groups, is unfunded and relies on sporadic grants and donations. Since its inception in 2003 in Melbourne at Werribee, wildlife conferences have been hosted in a different state every year for the first six, then every two years since.

​These have increased knowledge, and fostered contact networks across Australia. For wildlife rehabilitators, these conferences have become an important source of support, information and learning, reaffirming the important growing worldwide movement of conservation.